Variable

Freq.

%

Gender

male

123

62.4

female

74

37.5

Age category

15 – 45

114

57.8

46 - 60

58

29.4

61 -75

22

11.2

Above 75

3

1.5

Income level (pre -op)

With  correction in the national Ubudehe social economic grade

Low income

(grade 1& 2)

86

43.6

Middle (grade 3)

39

19.8

High income

(Grade 4)

25

12.6

Don’t know

47

23.8

Spine pathology groups

Trauma

67

34

Degenerative

120

60.9

Tumors

7

3.5

Others;Spinal AVF, spinal Infection and deformity

3

1.5